Rick Warren's supporters have pointed to his supposedly battling AIDS in Africa as one way he is different from other evangelicals. But Max Blumental reveals the antigay, abstinence-only, ineffective and even dangerous programs Warran promoted. I'll be having Max on the show this week to talk about it:
However, an investigation into Warren’s involvement in Africa reveals a web of alliances with right-wing clergymen who have sidelined science-based approaches to combating AIDS in favor of abstinence-only education. More disturbingly, Warren’s allies have rolled back key elements of one of the continent’s most successful initiative, the so-called ABC program in Uganda. Stephen Lewis, the United Nations’ special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, told the New York Times their activism is “resulting in great damage and undoubtedly will cause significant numbers of infections which should never have occurred.”
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